Recently I was creating a new MVC4 application and of course I wanted to use Ninject as my IoC container. The first thing I did was to download and install the following NuGet packages: Ninject.MVC3 Ninject.Extensions.Conventions CommongServiceLocator.NinjectAdapter After I got these setup I opened up...

“If only there was some way to quickly and silently install applications and tools on my windows machine.” Chocolatey is kind of like an apt-get, but for Windows. It is a machine level package manager that is built on top of NuGet command line and the NuGet infrastructure. Jason Jarrett recently described...

There is an inherent danger in using electronic tools to manage a process like software development, and one that almost always comes true - the tool defines your process, it doesn't enable it. When people encounter limitations in the software tool, they begin to accept that these are limitations...

Easy and Instant deployments and instant scale for .NET? Awhile back a few of us were looking at Ruby Gems as the answer to package management for .NET . The gems platform supported the concept of DLLs as packages although some changes would have needed to happen to have long term use for the entire...

On March 31, 1998, around 10am, my then-manager Alex and I left the office we shared together and headed over to Electronics Boutique. Alex and I were both developers working for the IT department of an up and coming software company called PC DOCS. In those days, we didn’t have a corporate firewall...